Yi-heng Yang
piano and historical keyboards
Remarkable expressivity and technique
-Early Music America
"Impeccable"
-BBC Music Magazine
Upcoming events:
September 27, 2026, 3 pm
Solo recital, music of Frescobaldi, Froberger, Pachelbel and others
October 2, 2026, 12 pm
New England Conservatory
Guest Speaker, Piano Department Seminar
October 3, 2026
Private House Concert
Avondale, RI
October 4, 2026, 3 pm
The Frederick Collection, Ashburnham, MA
Solo recital, 1836 Erard, Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata op. 106, Liszt-Schubert Transcriptions, Chopin Mazurkas op. 56
October 11, 2026, 7 pm
Roosevelt Island Chamber Music Society, NYC
Ramzi Abdurewan and Friends
October 14, 2026, 1030 am
Lang Hall, Hunter College, NYC
Lecture-demonstration: "Creative Pathways: Historical Practice and Improvisation"
October 24, 2026, 7 pm, Catskill Mountain Foundation
Doctorow Center, Hunter, NY
October 25, 2026, 6 pm, Good Shepherd -Faith Presbyterian Church
West 152 66th St, Lincoln Center NYC
"Birds of a Feather," Mozart Piano Concerto n. 17 K 453 in G major, Haydn and Mozart Symphonies
November 20, 2026
The Juilliard School, Paul Hall
Beethoven Focus Chamber Music Cycle: Collaboration with Juilliard Historical Performance and Basel Schola Cantorum students
December 4, 2026 at 730 pm
Roosevelt Island Concerts
Good Shepherd Church
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
with Shara Nova, vocalist, Ralph Allen, violin/viola, Iris Jortner, cello, Sangnah Nah, flute, Charles Neidich, clarinet, Yi-heng Yang, piano
January 9, 2027
Roosevelt Island Concerts
Good Shepherd Church
Brahms Piano Quintet
Salley Koo violin, Ralph Allen violin, Iris Jortner, cello, Yi-heng Yang, piano
January 31, 2027 3 pm
New Hope, PA
Concordia Chamber Players
Schubertiade with Karim Sulayman, tenor
Feb 8, March 1, 2027
Trio Ilona
Ravenna Lipchik, violin
Kate Bennett Wadsworth, cello
Yi-heng Yang, fortepiano
Franz Schubert — Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929
Johannes Brahms — Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101
February 21-22, 2027
Roosevelt Island Chamber Music Society
RIVAA Gallery
The Complete Fortepiano and Violin Sonatas of Beethoven
with Aisslinn Nosky, violin
April 18, 2027, Sunday at 3 pm
Historical Piano Concerts
The Frederick Collection
Ashburnham, MA
Duo Piano Recital with Artem Belugurov
April 25, 2027, Sunday at 3 pm
Roosevelt Island Chamber Music Society
RIVAA Gallery
The Classical Harpsichord
Peter Sykes, harpsichord, Yi-heng Yang, fortepiano
May 8, 2027
Montreal, Canada
Beethoven Project Accademia de Dissonanti
May 16, 2027
The Chapel Restoration Sunday Music Series
Cold Spring, NY
Solo clavichord recital
June 11, 2027
Boston Early Music Festival
Keyboard Mini-Festival
First Lutheran Church, Boston
Solo Fortepiano Recital
NEW RELEASE ALERT!
Rave reviews are coming in...
"Guest couldn’t have hoped for finer advocates for her music than keyboardist Yi-heng Yang and violinist Aisslinn Nosky, two of America’s leading voices in period performance. Yang is on a nimbly responsive replica of a 5.5-octave Anton Walter Viennese pianoforte by Christopher Clarke – a good approximation for the English-style grands and square pianos that Guest would have spent her career on – and it isn’t just the ease-filled clarity and expressivity with which she meets Guest’s quicksilver runs and passagework but also the lively intellectual spark to it all; you sense that this is a pianist as fascinated with what the music suggests as about Guest’s own persona. As for Nosky, who sounds as though she’s on gut strings even though the booklet doesn’t stipulate, she’s superglued to Yang, giving equally in spark, and with plenty of interesting colouring."
Gramophone, September 2026
"Yiheng Yang relishes her role as the leading light, shaping bel canto melodies sensitively... negotiating with athleticism and lightness of touch these works’ virtuoso demands; the Fifth Sonata’s technical challenges are especially adroitly executed. Her timing, poise and subtle expressive inflections are also striking, ... and she adds ornamentation with seasoned expertise, particularly when elaborating transitional pauses with pertinent embellishment.
Aisslinn Nosky accompanies alertly and is consistently at one with Yang...The natural, carefully balanced recording contributes positively to this celebration of a talented, long-neglected female musician."
Strad Magazine, September 2026
May 2024: New album out now on Deux-Elles Records: Schumann Piano Trios with Trio Ilona. Ravenna Lipchik, violin, Kate Wadsworth, cello, Yiheng Yang, fortepiano.
"Fascinating. A notable debut from a period-aware trio." The Strad Magazine
"Endlessly satisfying... joyous, sparkling, and beautifully balanced." Early Music America
Recorded in a beautiful studio last summer in the English countryside, Trio Ilona allowed themselves the freedom, based on the latest musicological research, to take thrilling artistic risks and experiment with romantic performance practice techniques, exploring anew the abundant creativity and expression that is present in Schumann’s heartbreakingly beautiful and authentic music. Streicher piano 1838.
